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Alix Wall

Alix Wall

Alix Wall is a contributing editor to J. She is also the founder of the Illuminoshi: The Not-So-Secret Society of Bay Area Jewish Food Professionals and is writer/producer of a documentary-in-progress called "The Lonely Child."

Samantha Ramey in front of her family's second restaurant, Americana in Santa Rosa. (Photo/Kelsey Joy Murphey)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Roadside café in itty-bitty town draws big, hungry crowds

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 9, 2022May 10, 2022
A range of Susie Fishman's Meet My Kneads spices. (Photo/Susie Fishman)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Spices with funny Jewish names fight hunger on college campuses

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 28, 2022April 28, 2022
One of Afikomen's popular #WhatsCookingForShabbos videos on Instagram
Posted inSmall Bites

Sababa expands; Afikomen’s ‘What’s Cooking for Shabbos’ is an Instagram hit

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 26, 2022April 28, 2022
Sachin Chopra and Shoshana Wolff in front of their new cafe at the Half Moon Bay Airport.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

At Pilot Light Cafe, watch planes come and go in Half Moon Bay

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 13, 2022April 28, 2022
Rachel Brodie
Posted inObituaries

Rachel Brodie, teachers’ mentor and master Jewish educator, dies at 55

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 13, 2022May 13, 2022
(From left) Dor Gvirtsman, Aleeza Chanowitz, Marnina Schon and Tomer Machloof in "Chanshi." (Photo/Vered Adir, HOT)
Posted inTV & Film

Bay Area-raised actors join Henry Winkler in Israeli comedy ‘Chanshi’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 11, 2022April 12, 2022
Phil Narodick (seated) and Eli Zigas (with hat) and Ilyse Magy (in the red), the organizers of the Schmearicle on King Street.
Posted inSmall Bites

In season of miracles, Berkeley bagel-lovers saw a ‘schmearicle’ 

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 11, 2022April 11, 2022
Audrey Hepburn at Horn & Hardart, an automat chain that is the subject of the documentary "The Automat."
Posted inFilm

‘The Automat’ documentary with Mel Brooks and RBG opens; Celebrating Italian Jewish food; etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 29, 2022March 30, 2022
David Biale and Rachel Biale in April 1972
Posted inBooks

‘Aerograms’: An American-Israeli love story, told in 258 letters

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 28, 2022July 20, 2022
Founder Matt Cohen at an Off the Grid event. (Photo/Grace Sager)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Off the Grid’s food truck Fridays are back on at Fort Mason

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 25, 2022March 30, 2022

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